famous poets and their works

1. Poetry of the world
and
suggested Readings

3. Famous Authors

4. Haiku
Haiku" is a traditional form of Japanese poetry. Haiku poems
consist of 3 lines. The first and last lines of a Haiku have 5
syllables and the middle line has 7 syllables. The lines rarely
rhyme.
The term haiku is derived from the first element of the word
haikai (a humorous form of renga, or linked-verse poem) and
the second element of the word hokku (the initial stanza of a
renga).

5. Matsuro Basho
A master of the hokku, Matsuo Basho (1644-
1694) has helped readers achieve a deeper
thought process through his works.
Example:

7. CHINA

8. Tufu
one of China’s greatest poets of the Tang
dynasty.
Tu Fu is often described as a poet-historian,
and his works convey the emotional impact
and import of political and social issues and
register a range of private concerns, trials,
and dramas.
(Tu Fu’s poems) show the seamlessness of
Tu Fu’s understanding of both the existential
quality of a human life, and the moral
necessity of a humane one.

9. It is Tu Fu’s ability to express
clearly, daringly, the nature of
his knowledge of himself that makes
him the greatest of the great.

10. THE LITTLE RAIN
by TU FU
Oh, she is good, the little rain! and well
she knows our need
Who cometh in the time of spring to aid
the sun-drawn seed;
She waders with a friendly wind through
silent nights unseen,
The furrows feel her happy tears,
and lo! the land is green.
Last night cloud-shadows gloomed
the path that winds to my adobe,
And the torches of the river boats
like angry meteors glowed.
Today fresh colors break the soil, and
butterflies take wing
Down broidered lawns all bright with
pearls in the garden of the King.

11. THANK YOU!